With a filmography including over forty films, Bara was one of the most prolific stars of the silent era. As a partially lost ...

Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton are the two main comics from the silent era, but if those are the only names you know, then Harold Lloyd will be a happy discovery. His movie Safety Last!is ...

Today, a war film that lacks gunshots, explosions, powerful monologues, and cries of anguish might seem dull. Yet, in the Silent Era (1910–1927), audiences had to settle for such cinematic ...

It might not be surprising therefore that the best-known Polish film to survive this era was a Yiddish musical Yidl mitn Fidl / Yiddle with His Fiddle (1936). The film was shot in Kraków's Kazimierz ...

It was his varied interests – namely history and the occult – that would lead to him becoming one of the most important horror film directors of the silent era. Christensen’s most important ...

These new crime films were different from the morality tales of the silent era's crime genre. Their ethnic characters, pulling themselves up by the bootstraps, were the new archetypal Americans.

The 1926 film "The Flying Ace" will be screened with live musical accompaniment to mark Black History Month. The film is one ...

Scores of silent films from that era were lost because they were printed on nitrate film stock, an unstable and highly flammable material. “It deteriorated, and also back then the studios weren ...

Between 1900 and 1929, when Sid Grauman ran silent films with live orchestral accompaniment in his Hollywood “movie palaces,” he probably never imagined that the thousands of orchestral scores used by ...